vertebra / ˈvɜr tə brə /

⚽高中词汇椎骨脊椎骨椎体脊椎体

vertebra 的定义

n. 名词 noun

plural ver·te·brae [vur-tuh-bree, -brey], /ˈvɜr təˌbri, -ˌbreɪ/, ver·te·bras.Anatomy, Zoology.

  1. any of the bones or segments composing the spinal column, consisting typically of a cylindrical body and an arch with various processes, and forming a foramen, or opening, through which the spinal cord passes.

更多vertebra例句

  1. The bullet had burst her C5 vertebra, but, remarkably, the round had tumbled millimeters past her major arteries and narrowly missed severing her spine.
  2. It introduced readers to Tina Brooks, a former police officer who fractured a vertebra in her back and damaged three others in her neck when she plunged 15 feet down a steep quarry while training for bicycle patrol.
  3. It includes five percussion speeds and comes with five heads, including a fork head to get muscles close to the vertebrae.
  4. Large bone fragments and teeth appear to be well-preserved, but smaller bones like vertebrae or thin rib bones likely didn’t survive as well.
  5. These vertebrae also preserve annual growth bands, like the rings of a tree, showing how the fish grew.
  6. I have no idea when the second vertebra went out during the battle.
  7. One vertebra had given way in Ganjigal when I picked up an Askar and slipped in the bloody mud under him.
  8. Such a contrivance would save his feet, check his perspiration, and console his dorsal vertebra.
  9. But I also find the petrified vertebra of an antediluvian animal upon which the Trojans have carved a large owls head.
  10. The ball passed through the liver and diaphragm, and lodged in the vertebra.
  11. Pleurapoph′ysis, a lateral process of a vertebra, with the morphological character of a rib:—pl.
  12. Probably not; and more especially if it is a lumbar artery, and injured in the foramen through which it passes from the vertebra.